Wanna Know Anyone

You want to know any person, Travel with them.....

-- This is not a quote... This is a personal experience..... :)

Law of Jungles

Law of jungle states "The fittest survive" .....

BUT

Law of jungle also state "You don't kill what you can't eat" ....

Moral: Which ever laws you follow, follow them completely because otherwise you will fall into utter chaos from which there will be no way back....

-- Written in times when its not so harmonious. May God bless us all. Amen !

Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft - Where car begins

Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (Daimler Motor Company, DMG) was a German engine and later automobile manufacturer, in operation from 1890 until 1926. Founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, it was based first in Cannstatt (today Bad-Cannstatt, a city district of Stuttgart).


Daimler died in 1900, and the company moved in 1903 to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim after the original factory was destroyed by fire, and again to Berlin in 1922. Other factories were located in Marienfelde (near Berlin) and Sindelfingen (next to Stuttgart).



One of the first engines by Daimler. Image from Mercedez Museum, Stuttgart



The company started as a petrol engine producer, but after the success of a small number of race cars built on contract by Wilhelm Maybach for Emil Jellinek, it began to produce the Mercedes model of 1902, after which automobile production expanded to become DMG main product and it built several models.

Because of the post World War I German economic crisis, DMG merged in 1926 with Benz & Cie., becoming Daimler-Benz and adopting Mercedes-Benz as its automobile trademark. For the two companies to survive the financial problems of the day, in 1919, the Benz & Cie. proposed a merger, but DMG formally rejected it in December. Then, as the German crisis worsened, the struggling companies met again in 1924 and signed an Agreement of Mutual Interest, valid until the year 2000. They standardized design, production, purchasing, sales, and advertising—marketing their car models jointly—although keeping their respective brands. In June 28, 1926, DMG and Benz & Cie. merged into the Daimler-Benz Company, establishing its headquarters in the Untertürkheim factory. Their automobiles were baptized Mercedes Benz, in honour of DMG's most important car model and the last name of Karl Benz.







The first motor bike patent by Daimler. Image from Mercedez Museum, Stuttgart




A further merger occurred in 1998 with Chrysler to become DaimlerChrysler. The name was finally changed to just Daimler AG in 2007 when Chrysler was sold.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Motoren_Gesellschaft

Unfaithful

Unfaithful - Some very nice lyrics.
-- By Rihana

Pity the Nation

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.

Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bull as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity the nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.



Written By Khalil Gibran
--The garden of the Prophet (1934)

The Troubled Times

There are times when everything goes bad. Days are gloomy and nights are lonely. People can't be trusted and no achievement is possible. Only thing that can take us through this phase is the faith. Only if we put in the faith and continues our way, than every phase of life is destined to pass away.

Picture of the Month - August 2008

An evening in Germany - The look at the Heidelberg from the Schloss ......

Opportunity and Decisions

When opportunity knocks on your door, take it. Once you have it with you, you can always decide what to do next..... BUT if there is nothing in your hand, there is nothing you can decide....

Work @ TD

Some pictures from my office..... :)

Why????

All the times in life are meant to come and go. No matter, they are happy times, sad times or tough times, they are just there for that moment.....

What is it than that make us take all the miseries along with us and leave the good things behind. If only could people learn to live with the optimism in their lives and take all the bad happenings as nothing but the experience only........

--Self Thought

Hypocrisy

We say that we believe in God
Yet we tend to plan as see us as the best of the planner

We say that we fall in love to find the truth of life
Yet we are not ready to let go our love to flourish

We say that fate decides our path
Yet we deem ourselves for our success and failures

Utter hypocrisy and nothing else.

In the Arms of an Angel

Video of "In the Arms of an Angel" .... from "City of Angels"

Atlantis..... A Myth from History

Atlantis (in Greek, "island of Atlas") is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.

In Plato's account, Atlantis, lying "beyond the Pillars of Heracles", was a naval power that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9500 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "In a single day and night of misfortune".

Ancient History:

In ancient history, we find different accounts of "Atlantis" or "Atlantis Like" civilizations. Herodotus, in his "History", Vol.1, has a few passages about "Atlantis".

"As far as these Atlantians I am able to mention in order the names of those who are settled in the belt of sand; but for the parts beyond these I can do so no more. However, the belt extends as far as the Pillars of Heracles and also in the parts outside them: and there is a mine of salt in it at a distance of ten days' journey from the Atlantians, and men dwelling there; and these all have their houses built of the lumps of salt, since these parts of Libya which we have now reached are without rain; for if it rained, the walls being made of salt would not be able to last: and the salt is dug up there both white and purple in color.Above the sand-belt, in the parts which are in the direction of the South Wind and towards the interior of Libya, the country is uninhabited, without water and without wild beasts, rainless and treeless, and there is no trace of moisture in it."

The most famous description again comes from "Plato" though in his dialogues

"Let me begin by observing, first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between all those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and those who dwelt within them: this war I am now to describe. Of the combatants on the one side the city of Athens was reported to have been the ruler, and to have directed the contest; the combatants on the other side were led by the kings of the islands of Atlantis, which, as I was saying, once had an extent greater than that of Libya and Asia; and, when afterward sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to the ocean."

Modern Day Continuation:

Francis Bacon's 1627 novel The New Atlantis describes a utopian society, called Bensalem, located off the western coast of America. A character in the novel gives a history of Atlantis that is similar to Plato's and places Atlantis in America. It is not clear whether Bacon means North or South America.

Isaac Newton's 1728 The Chronology of the Ancient Kingdoms Amended studies a variety of mythological links to Atlantis.

In middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

The 1882 publication of Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly stimulated much popular interest in Atlantis. Donnelly took Plato's account of Atlantis seriously and attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from its high Neolithic culture.

The Myth Continues:

Atlantis is a myth that continues yet. Some claims that Atlantis was more advanced than the world today and some claim it as nothing but a source of inspiration. Whatever the truth is, I hope that it will be unfolded one day.

Source:
http://atlantis.haktanir.org/ch3.html
http://atlantis.haktanir.org/Plato.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis

Micro Management vs Macro Management

What's it with Micro-management that it intrigues people?

Maybe feeling of having the absolute control drives it or the Mistrust on people or fear of loss is the motivation behind micro-management. But what happens when things are micro-managed in medium to large sized environments. It shatters the trust of people being effected. On the purpose of building own confidence people easily disregard what they are doing around to others.

On the other hand, where Macro-management heavily relies on delegation, it does have its pitfalls as well. People can become casual and relax with their responsibilities. Where as the business can get some blows if not managed at every level and by every person, it still thrives on blooming of individual assessment of task in hand and upbringing of sense of responsibility in everyone.

What will be my choice. I believe I am a strong pro for Macro-Management. Though initial results might be risky but thats something which results in long term very well in terms of business and being a human being. Thats my call... :)

-- Written on the Assignment of new project :D

Picture of the Month - June 2008

Again the painting by Iranian artist. Shows the hope of a child... Looking towards it where ever it comes from.... A great observation and sense of art by the artist.